improvised

Example Sentences

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It can be played without equipment and with an improvised ball, so long as you have others to play with.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

And because I had already used my good stock earlier in the week for pastina, I improvised with bouillon cubes dissolved in hot water and zhushed up with a little white miso and garlic powder.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

Schools that have been turned into shelters are full, and many are sleeping in improvised tents in public spaces and even in cars.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Dense layers of carefully manipulated sound—elements that seem alienating in some electronic music—are tethered to Ms. Muldrow’s mostly improvised words to suggest the complexities of human emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Meme could not help thinking about her when they turned on the lights on the improvised stage and she began the second part of the program.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez